Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 2

SR No.: 001002
Original Sutra Author: Hemchandracharya
Author: Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1937
Total Pages: 438
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Mythology, & Story
File Size: 9 MB

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Its middle part was level and smooth like the face of an alingipuskara,81 like a mirror, like a lampstand.82 Painted with soft, beautiful, five-colored paintings, the floor looked as if strewn with peacock-feathers. Inside of it there was a theater-pavilion, a play-house of Śris, like a royal palace inside a city. Inside of it there was a jeweled platform, eight yojanas long and wide and four yojanas high. On it was an excellent jeweled lion-throne, like a large, pure jewel in a large ring. Above it shines a canopy, brilliant with silver, giving the impression of autumn-moonlight that had become congealed. Hanging to its center was a diamond hook, and hanging from it was a pearl-wreath of one kumbhika.88 Like younger brothers of this one, in the four directions there were strings of pearls measuring half a kumbha. Slowly rocked by a gentle wind, they gleamed, thieves of the beauty of the pleasure-swing of the Śri of Sunasira.
To the northeast, north, and northwest of Sakra's large jeweled lion-throne were the thrones of the eightyfour thousand Sāmānika-gods, beautiful with jewels, equal in number (to the gods). To the east, the eight seats of the eight wives of Indra resembled jeweled pleasurebalconies of Kamalā. In the southeast were the seats of the twelve thousand gods of the inner assembly. In the south were the fourteen thousand seats in succession of Śakra's middle assembly. In the southwest were the sixteen thousand seats of the gods of the outer assembly. Behind Sakra's lofty lion-throne were the seats of the seven generals. In each of the four directions from Sakra's throne were the seats of the eighty-four thousand bodyguards. Such a car was produced simultaneously with
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81 290. Evidently the same as alingimṛdanga. See I, p. III.
82 290. Dipakamalli. Cf. mallikā, 4. 185, 'lampstand,' and malli, PE, s.v. Evidently some kind of round lampstand is meant. The translation of dipamalli, 1. 2. 359, obviously unsatisfactory, must be corrected accordingly.
88 296. See I, n. 152.